New member here. Assuming from the details above, you guys are talking about the 1957 Johnson Javelin that was on Ebay recently for a Buy It Now for $900. I bought it! For reals. I had been watching the auction for a few days and decided that $900 was a pretty decent price so I jumped. The motor was in Porter, Texas and I had to have a driver pick it up and deliver it to me. I just got here on Tuesday. The motor is even more beautiful in person! The seller used is as a show motor for his 1957 Yellow Jacket and it won several awards over the years. He sold the boat a while back and the motor has been sitting in his office as a conversation piece for several years. It has never been cranked since he had a full nut and bolt restoration completed. I plan on running the old girl on my 1956 Aristocraft Torpedo.
I am also restoring ad rebuilding a 1958 Johnson Super Seahorse RDS-20 from the ground up which will also be used on the same boat from time to time. Right now, I am scouring the web looking for wiring harness and junction box for the 57 Javelin. The controls and harness were sold with the seller’s Yellow Jacket so I am having to scrounge around to find the rest of the parts to make the Javelin run again. I just procured all the parts to convert the Javelin to a long shaft set-up.
The images are from the original auction but I plan on taking some shortly.
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